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PRESS RELEASE
Tightrope Books launches debut poetry collection The Days You've Spent
Toronto, ON (May 20, 2010)-From the award-winning author of The Reading Circle comes a collection of poetry where the individual and the city interweave, and urban immersion becomes an essential element in personal growth.
"What
a joy to spend days with The Days You've Spent by Sue Bowness. Excellence
is her standard, structure and musicality her method, narrative spiced
with whimsy her mode. Even while wondering whether it's worth getting
out of bed to face the day, Bowness flourishes imagery flooded with light.
Here are poems that intrigue, provoke, entwine, and always shine."
-MOLLY PEACOCK
The city, at once benevolent and indifferent to its residents, is the inspiration for this debut collection of poetry by Suzanne Bowness. In the first poem, a young woman arrives in the big city, where "in the beginning, anonymity is everywhere," and wonders what her life there will bring. Using this new arrival as her starting point, Bowness moves on to develop urban themes of anonymity and collectivity alongside individualist themes of freedom, loneliness, and growing self identity.
"In
The Days You've Spent, Suzanne Bowness shakes off 'false familiarities'
with the quiet lyricism of a modern-day Emily Dickinson, and like Ansel
Adams' photographs, presents us with a sense of infinite focus where the
voice takes on the uncertainties of life and never backs down."
-BRUCE MEYER
Part private reflection, part love letter to the metropolis, The Days You've Spent pulls back the curtain on city life, finding beauty in neon signs and profundity in laundromats.
Suzanne (Sue) Bowness is a writer and editor whose articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. Her poetry has been published in journals such as the Literary Review of Canada and Pagitica, and her play The Reading Circle won first place in the 2006 Ottawa Little Theatre National One-Act Playwriting Competition. She is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Ottawa, and her website is www.codeword.ca.
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Reading video:
From
Tree Series in Ottawa:
August 24, 2010
Upcoming readings:
Ottawa Small Press Fair Pre-reading
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